48 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



Larva dull red, with a dorsal and two lateral rows of radiating tufts of fine black 

 hair arising from black tubercles. Pupa dull red. 



" Colombo. Plains ; in gardens. Day flier. Easily caught." {Hutchison.) 



NYCTEMERA lATISTRIGA (Plate 99, Fig. 2,cJ). 



Ni/ctemera latistriga, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ii. p. 397 (1854). 

 Leptosoma latistriffa, Bntler, Types Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 44, pi. 88, fig. 1 (1881). 



Male and female : forewing dark smoky-brown, with an oblique discal white 

 macular band, and a broad longitudinal band beneath the cell ; the veins and margin 

 above and below the latter band white streaked : hindwing white, with a broad dark 

 brown marginal band. Body ochreous-grey ; head and tip of abdomen ochreous ; 

 head and thorax black spotted, abdomen with black dorsal bands and latera,l spots ; 

 antennae black ; palpi black tipped ; legs blackish above, yellowish beneath. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



NYCTEMERA NIGROVENOSA (Plate 98, Fig. 4, $,4a, larva). 

 Nyctemera nigrovenosa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 394. 

 Allied to iV^. coleta, Cram. (Bsot. Lep. pi. 368, f. H), from Java ; differs on the 

 forewing in the discal maculated band being somewhat narrower ; and on the hind= 

 wing in the veins being lined with black throughout, both above and beneath. 

 Expanse l-f- inch. 



Larva purple, anterior segments yellowish ; black spotted ; hairy ; orossed by 

 short dorsal and lateral white streaks. Pupa yellow, black spotted. 



" Feeds on Gynura, and other Compositse." {Thwaites.) 



^' Puselawe. Hills, 3000 feet, on cultivated ground. Day flier." {Hutchison.) 



Genus DONDERA. 



Dondera Moore, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 345. 

 Eorewing elongate, narrow, costa arched, apex somewhat acute, exterior margin 

 very obhque : hindwing long and narrow, extending beyond angle of forewing, apex 

 very convex, abdominal margin short. Body moderate ; antennaa long, slender, 

 bipectinated ; palpi slender, porrect, naked; legs long, slender, naked, middle and 

 hind tibial spurred. Venation similar to Nyctemera lacticinia. 



DONDERA ABLA (Plate Q8, Fiq. Z,S): 

 Dondera alba, Moore, Annals of Nat. Hist, 1877, p. 345, 

 Female. Upperside pure white throughout both wings. Head, thorax, and 



